Refugee Rodents

Leslie C. Dunn '15, Professor of Zoology at Columbia University, is reported to have had on his safe, scientific hands some of the rarest and most interesting refugees yet to arrive here from war-torn Europe.

Rats, carrying in their blood stream hereditary characteristics possessed by no others of their kind, were shipped to him for sanctuary on the outbreak of the war abroad. Now J. B. S. Haldane, British biologist, worried about New York's and, consequently, the rats' proximity to Nazi bombs, has persuaded Professor Dunn to transfer the rats to the West coast.

A well-travelled breed, once having been used in brain studies in Berlin, they have developed a new trick since coming to America and have been losing their tails.